Have you looked at your "allow_url_fopen" setting in php.ini? It should be
on...
HTH,
Mikey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.general
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:04 PM
Subject: PHP Failing to open remote files using include/require
> Hi,
>
> I have a server hosted by a company running Win2k, they are in charge of
> the maintainance, and we had a site working fine, then yesterday, it
> failed to include any files using http:// using:
> include ("http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."/dir/somefile.php");
>
> The code has not been altered in 2 weeks, and as mentioned it was
> working the other day, all other php code and include works.
>
> There is no firewall or other apps in place that is stopping the box
> from doing external calls, there is also not a DNS problem.
>
> They are running php 4.3.2, and the php.ini has not been touched in 4
> months.
>
> I've installed a quick test script, below:
>
> * name and IP addresses have been changed *
>
> [code]
> echo "Test One: ";
> include_once '../../test.txt';
>
> echo "External Call using DNS: ";
> include_once 'http://www.somesite.com/test.txt';
>
> echo "External Call NOT using DNS: ";
> include_once 'http://0.0.0.0/test.txt';
>
>
> echo "<p>Using FOPEN with DNS: ";
> $file = fopen ("http://www.somesite.com/test.txt";, "r");
> if (!$file) {
> echo "<p>Unable to open remote file.\n";
> exit;
> }
>
> while (!feof ($file)) {
> $line = fgets ($file, 1024);
>
> echo $line;
> }
> fclose($file);
>
> [/code]
>
> This is the output:
>
> Test One: --- a test file --- (This is ok)
>
> External Call using DNS:
> Warning: main(): Failed opening 'http://www.somesite.com/test.txt' for
> inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in
> D:\Inetpub\ftproot\somedir\dir\test.php on line 8
>
> External Call NOT using DNS:
> Warning: main(): Failed opening 'http://0.0.0.0/test.txt' for inclusion
> (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in
> D:\Inetpub\ftproot\somedir\dir\test.php on line 12
>
> Using FOPEN with DNS: --- a test file --- (This is ok)
>
>
> This is driving me mad, as scripts do not just stop working like this,
> it would seem to me, that some MS patch or something else has changed on
> the serverthat is causing the problem.
>
> Any help wwould be most appreiated.
>
> Using the same code, it works on 3 development servers here (at work,
> using Win2k, Linux and Windows 2003), and they all run different
> versions of php.
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
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